XPost: alt.rec.hiking, misc.health.diabetes
Today is January 23, 2022.
I have diabetes and chose a work that gave me hours of physical activity
every working day to take care of the exercise part of the treatment. In
April of 2020 a judge in Dallas ordered lock down and I had to stay home
from then on. Soon I decided to make up for the lost physical activity
by walking. News of fatalities at work to this day (1/23/2022) from
Covid has prevented me from going back to work.
Last month I decided to write something about my walking experience and
post them to usenet. I first chose the sci.physics newsgroup because
that's where I'd been spending a few minutes a day for other reasons.
But the subject doesn't belong to that newsgroup. So I've decided to
post these notes to the above newsgroups which I believe are more
appropriate places for them.
Although I am open to discussions about these subjects, I don't
necessarily need input from others and am treating these notes as
equivalents to blogs.
I will first re-post what I already wrote in the past month or so, then
add new entries to it.
My first post in this blog: (posted Dec 15, 2021)
I'd like to say a bit about my amazing daily walk. It is simple, like
many simple things in life that are wonderful. Gets me closer to nature
even in this godforsaken metroplex. The feel of life I get before and
after it are different for me :) It gives me what a zillion people have forgotten about themselves.
There are birds. Much fewer of them unfortunately compared to last year.
I don't know why. There are insects I have to avoid stepping on, giving
me neck ache by all the time looking down in front of me for a few miles
of the way. There are of course plants and squirrels and rabbits and
baby snakes and also strange evidence of larger predators. Their
droppings indicate they could hunt rabbits.
Three are creeks all over Dallas, thanks to the mighty Trinity River,
the mother of it all. Adjacent to these creeks and along them, nature is
kept preserved. Even houses built on the sides of these creeks respect
it and don't mess with it. They don't want to damage it. There might
even be laws in effect against occupying such spaces. The way these
areas around creeks are, often doesn't let human step in them. They're
too tightly packed with shrubs and full of horny plants that literally
stop you from moving forward even when you have layers of clothing on
and push yourself in. You get stopped! :) Ask those who had to take a
dump in an emergency. They come out of them bruised, literally bruised
with bloody scratches and cuts on them. Only animals and birds and
critters and snake or rabbit or squirrels can move in them.
A few parts along the track on which I walk pass along these creeks
depending on which route I take. If I take a certain route, about 2
hours of my walk will fall along these creeks. The rest on cement
surfaces surrounded by grassy area that sometimes aren't that far from
the same creeks again. But always, no matter what route I take, about a
mile of it falls on grassy areas. Walking on those stretches is a
different type of experience in many ways. It is not the same as walking
same distance on concrete or through the bushes. Very different indeed.
I see others doing these walks too. So far I have identified a Chink, a
thin sexy Black old woman (older than me), and three very tall and very
old Cro-Magnon Americans who are hanging to their lives only as a result
of those walks. One Hispanic short dude also. That's it. These are the regulars, we know each other because we do it much more often than
others. Rain or shine, cold or hot, windy or still, and totally
independent of what's on TV. Totally independent of Dallas or Texas or
USA or the planet Earth.
There are others who appear once in a while or once in a long while.
They aren't there to get the benefit that we regulars are getting from
it. They're probably doing it as entertainment, not therapy. Just to
reduce their unusual stress or something. We do it for other reasons.
And of course there are families who come en masse, with lots of kids
and dogs and infants on carriages, etc. They always move very slowly and
for short distances only. They're just having an outing.
There are idiots also. Those who run and those who ride bicycles
thinking they are exercising. I don't believe in running as a form of
exertion that benefits body, cause I think it is not what our bodies are
formed to do often. Same with riding bicycles or going to gyms. You
might as well practice boxing. And the faster these bicycle riders move
forward the more they think they are exercising, which I think is
idiotic :-)
We regulars _only_ walk! Long distances. We see each other either at the beginning of the way or somewhere in the middle or around the end where
we turn back. We have discovered what it means to us. Even young ones.
The Chink and the Hispanic dude (I'm trying not to refer to him as the
Beaner) are young. Somehow, this soon in life, they have discovered it!
You might think why they're not at work. I think they both have
businesses that are run for them by others. The Chink is often checking
with his phone. The Hispanic doesn't even do that.
I don't even take an active working phone with me. Early on when one day
I got close to call Uber to take me home for the rest of the walk back I
never took my working phone with me after that. I do carry an inactive
phone for 911 calls (and occasional pictures and vids I take). All
non-working non-active phones in Dallas area are capable of placing 911
calls (expensive call though! I think it costs you something like 10 or
15 bucks a minute). Fortunately I have not been forced to do that yet.
Ok, need to go to walk! :-)
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